Test mass materials for a new generation of gravitational wave detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4856, Issue , 2002, Pages 292-297

  Rowan, Sheila ^a,b   Byer, Robert L ^a   Fejer, Martin M ^a   Route, Roger ^a   Cagnoli, Gianpietro ^b   Crooks, David R M ^b   Hough, James ^b   Sneddon, Peter H ^b   Winkler, Walter ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooling; Gravitational waves; Silicon test masses; Thermal noise

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MIRRORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICON; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL NOISE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ALL-REFLECTIVE INTERFEROMETER TOPOLOGIES; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE FREQUENCY BAND; TEST MASS MATERIALS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 0038530842     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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